Disserations by Mr. Dooley (1906) - Almanac of Theodore Roosevelt

SOCIALISM
Saturday night at Mr. Dooley 's Mr. Dooley in
the chair. Present, Mr. Larkin and Mr. McKenna.
Present, but not voting, Mr. Hennessy and Mr.
Schwartzmeister.
OCIALISM is sweepin* like a wave over
th' counthry," said Mr. Larkin, the radical
blacksmith.
It hasn't wet my feet yet,"
said Mr. McKenna
(Rep.).
" But Matthew is right," said Mr. Dooley. " He's
right about it. A few days ago Mulligan wud've
r-run me in because I didn't wear a pitcher iv Hetty
Green in me watch - chain, an' sind me freeman's
sufferage to Pierpont Mulligan to be endorsed befure
iv th'
I cud use it. To-day Mulligan is prisidint
Polisman's Binivolent Hammer th' Millyonaires Asso-
cyation, an' he has turned to th' wall th' lithygrafts
iv th' fathers iv his counthry, Addicks Crossin' th'
Delaware, Jakey
Schiff sthrikin' th' shekels fr'm th'
slave, an' Grover Cleveland's Farewell to his Lifeinsurance
agents. These an' other gr-reat names that
wanst us bold but busted peasanthry looked up to
f'r advice that not on'y cost thim nawthin', but was
even what ye might call remoonerative to thim, has
to pay th' same rates as Mrs. Winslow's soothin'
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